Habsburger Herrschaft vor Ort weltweit (1300–1600)
2015; Oxford University Press; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/gerhis/ghv003
ISSN1477-089X
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
ResumoAmong the profusion of recent studies on the Holy Roman Empire, the volume edited by Bob Evans and Peter Wilson, entitled The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806: A European Perspective (reviewed in German History 31, 3, 2013), did much to cast light on the non-German periphery of the many domains under Habsburg rule. It was pointed out, however, that more could have been said about territories which had once been or which remained central to Habsburg power—Switzerland or the Franche-Comté. The present volume does much to fill the gap. Stemming from a conference in Lenzburg in 2008 marking the first documentary mention of the name Habsburg, it compares the exercise of Habsburg power at local level—but on a worldwide scale, taking in the Spanish empire in Europe and in the Americas. Some surprising similarities in administrative practice between the Old and New Worlds emerge, but for readers of this journal this review concentrates on those essays dealing with the Habsburg heartlands and the Low Countries periphery which the dynasty inherited through marriage from the dukes of Burgundy in 1477, after the death of Charles the Bold.
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